“This proves that the threat was very real. The intention
was clear, we had to take some action to prevent bigger things from
happening.”

Now, he is blowing cold, when DAP confirmed that no meeting was held with Pakatan leaders,Hamid says he will verify his earlier information. He further adds that he will not apologise unless DAP asks him nicely. Oh brother, must DAP bring along chocolates and ask him nicely.

But the more important issue is, were the road blocks just put up by the Police on the instructions of the Home Minister when the unverified information was received.

Is he not going to apologise to the people for the three day inconvenience and agony the people suffered in traffic jams.

DAP has called for a retraction from Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar who said Monday that the meeting was attended by various leaders, including Kit Siang, Guan Eng, Dr Tan and PAS treasurer Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli.

DAP claims there was no such meeting among the Pakatan top leadership.

Kit Siang added that there should be a public inquiry into the massive road blocks on Monday.

He also called for Syed Hamid to resign if he failed to provide an explanation for the massive jams on Monday.

In an immediate response, Syed Hamid said the Home Ministry will verify the information he received via SMS on the planned rally outside Parliament. He added that he will not apologise to the DAP unless they speak to him “nicely” about it.

In Parliament, Syed Hamid insisted that the authorities had valid information that Guan Eng had attended a meeting with Pakatan Rakyat leaders on July 9 to discuss the alleged demonstration on Monday.

“I will retract what had been said of Yang Berhormat if the information is found to be untrue. The details of the information are not with me, but I can tell you more in other forums,” he added.

Guan Eng earlier denied that he had attended the meeting, and claimed that he was with the Penang Yang di-Pertua Negri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas on that day.

“I was in Penang and there was no meeting at the PKR headquarters (on that day),” he added.

Several minutes of argument then ensued between the Pakatan MPs and Barisan backbenchers.

N. Gobalakrishnan (PKR-Padang Serai) told Syed Hamid that the massive traffic gridlock had occurred because of “your false information,” while Syed Hamid replied that “Yang Berhormat is the one who is causing difficulty to the people.”

He added a “national media policy” was being formulated to ensure the country’s mass media fulfilled the country’s aspirations to create mass media that was responsible, transparent and had credibility.

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A police report should be made by all affected people inconvenienced by the jam as they should be able to claim whatever losses they incurred be it monetory, unable to attend exams, loss of productive time etc. someone should take responsibilty for this blunder. If it is left unchecked more blunders will take place. I hope the police will have enough personnel to handle the taking of the reports from the masses.